With amazing wit and heart, this award-winning animated feature tells the poignant story of a young girl coming-of-age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Through the eyes of precocious and outspoken 9-year-old Marjane, we see a people's hopes dashed as fundamentalists take powerÑforcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands.
Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden. Feeling vulnerable and alone in a strange land after being sent to school in Austria, she has to combat being equated with the religious fundamentalism and extremism she fled her country to escape.
Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud
Chiara Mastroianni
Catherine Deneuve
Danielle Darrieux
Simon Abkarian
PG-13
1hr 35mins
2007